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...major reason for the squad's optimism is its confidence in Coach John Thompson '80. The volunteer coach has worked hard to obtain better equipment for the squad, and "golf at Harvard has improved a lot" since he took over, says Bickley. As a result of Thompson's efforts, "the team can attract better players. It's a self-perpetuating improvement, so the team's really on the upswing...
...York City for January's large international writers' congress, Murillo was escorted by Little Steven Van Zandt, a rock songwriter who produced the antiapartheid anthem Sun City. She had planned to attend an antidrug seminar in Atlanta last week at which Nancy Reagan was hostess, but did not obtain a visa...
...point to millions of dollars in kickbacks to the Marcoses from U.S. and Japanese companies doing business in the Philippines. One note refers to "amounts received" from five Japanese companies totaling more than $1 million. Others showed that Westinghouse Electric Corp. paid $11.2 million from 1976 to 1982 to obtain a lucrative contract to build the first Philippine nuclear power plant. The company last week reiterated that it had actually paid a grand total of $17 million over a ten-year period to Marcos Crony Herminio Disini, head of a now defunct construction conglomerate, to help cement the deal. Westinghouse...
There was widespread support, however, for Aquino's efforts to reclaim the Marcos riches. Within days of the former President's arrival at Hickam, the Philippine Central Bank filed a motion in U.S. district court in Hawaii to obtain an accounting of the money Marcos took with him. By week's end the U.S. Customs Service, which retained custody of the bounty, reported that the 22 boxes contained approximately $1.4 million in pesos. An inventory of the remaining crates is expected this week...
Even Prime Minister David Lange conceded that the tactic was "really a strange way of trying to obtain the liberty of two guilty people." Still, Lange charged last week in a letter to French Foreign Minister Roland Dumas that Paris has blocked $7 million worth of imported New Zealand lamb brains to pressure Wellington into releasing two French intelligence officers involved in the sinking of the Rainbow Warrior, the flagship of the international environmental organization Greenpeace. A Greenpeace photographer was killed in the incident, which occurred while the vessel was docked in Auckland harbor last July...